Abstract: The invention relates to a device for machining frames welded from profile pieces such as window or door frames made of plastic, said device comprising at least one machining head and machining tools which are mounted thereon and can be delivered to the relevant machining position on the frames. The machining head can be pivoted around an axis and has a positioning shaft which is mounted at an angle with respect to the pivot axis and on which the machining tools are mounted. The positioning shaft extends on both sides of the machining head with machining tools at both end regions of the positioning shaft.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for machining frames welded from profile pieces such as window or door frames made of plastic, said device comprising at least one machining head and machining tools which are mounted thereon and can be delivered to the relevant machining position on the frames. The machining head can be pivoted around an axis and has a positioning shaft which is mounted at an angle with respect to the pivot axis and on which the machining tools are mounted. The positioning shaft extends on both sides of the machining head with machining tools at both end regions of the positioning shaft.

Abstract: Techniques for scenario planning are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise analyzing, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, content using a topic model. The content can be associated with a defined source and is related to one or more current events. The computer-implemented method can also comprise determining, by the device, one or more portions of the analyzed content that are relevant to one or more key risk drivers using a risk driver model. The computer-implemented method can also comprise aggregating, by the device, the determined one or more portions into one or more emerging storylines based on values of one or more attributes of the topic model.

Abstract: Techniques for scenario planning are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise analyzing, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, content using a topic model. The content can be associated with a defined source and is related to one or more current events. The computer-implemented method can also comprise determining, by the device, one or more portions of the analyzed content that are relevant to one or more key risk drivers using a risk driver model. The computer-implemented method can also comprise aggregating, by the device, the determined one or more portions into one or more emerging storylines based on values of one or more attributes of the topic model.

Abstract: Techniques for scenario planning are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise analyzing, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, content using a topic model. The content can be associated with a defined source and is related to one or more current events. The computer-implemented method can also comprise determining, by the device, one or more portions of the analyzed content that are relevant to one or more key risk drivers using a risk driver model. The computer-implemented method can also comprise aggregating, by the device, the determined one or more portions into one or more emerging storylines based on values of one or more attributes of the topic model.

Abstract: Techniques for scenario planning are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise analyzing, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, content using a topic model. The content can be associated with a defined source and is related to one or more current events. The computer-implemented method can also comprise determining, by the device, one or more portions of the analyzed content that are relevant to one or more key risk drivers using a risk driver model. The computer-implemented method can also comprise aggregating, by the device, the determined one or more portions into one or more emerging storylines based on values of one or more attributes of the topic model.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing window or door elements that have a profile frame made up of profile pieces, and that have at least one glass pane attached thereto. The profile pieces are pre-affixed to each other in order to form corner joints, and subsequently, the at least one glass pane is glued to the pre-affixed profile frame, so that the corner joints attain their stability from the glued-in glass pane.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device for machining the corner area (1) of frames welded together out of profiled pieces (2, 3) such as, for instance, window or door frames, comprising at least one machining tool (4, 5, 6) that can be moved by means of a tool carrier (7) into the appropriate machining position at the corner area (1) of the frame along an axis (y) extending diagonally to the frame corner (3) and along an axis (z) perpendicular thereto. In order to allow machining of the corner area of a window or door frame as well as machining of the profile section itself, it is proposed according to the invention that the tool carrier (7) can move another tool carrier (8) arranged laterally thereto for at least one machining tool (9) configured for machining the profile section (2, 3), whereby the second tool carrier can be moved at least along an axis (x) extending at an angle ? relative to the axis (y) in the diagonal direction of the frame corner (1).

Abstract: This invention relates to a device for machining the corner area (1) of frames welded together out of profiled pieces (2, 3) such as, for instance, window or door frames, comprising at least one machining tool (4, 5, 6) that can be moved by means of a tool carrier (7) into the appropriate machining position at the corner area (1) of the frame along an axis (y) extending diagonally to the frame corner (3) and along an axis (z) perpendicular thereto. In order to allow machining of the corner area of a window or door frame as well as machining of the profile section itself, it is proposed according to the invention that the tool carrier (7) can move another tool carrier (8) arranged laterally thereto for at least one machining tool (9) configured for machining the profile section (2, 3), whereby the second tool carrier can be moved at least along an axis (x) extending at an angle ? relative to the axis (y) in the diagonal direction of the frame corner (1) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a structure function monitor provide for generation of parameters characterizing a refractive medium. In an embodiment, a structure function monitor acquires images of a pupil plane and an image plane and, from these images, retrieves the phase over an aperture, unwraps the retrieved phase, and analyzes the unwrapped retrieved phase. In an embodiment, analysis yields atmospheric parameters measured at spatial scales from zero to the diameter of a telescope used to collect light from a source.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for surface layer atmospheric turbulence differential image motion measurement provide the ability to measure and characterize the atmospheric turbulence in a surface boundary layer with applications to a wide variety of technical areas including, but not limited to, astronomy and atmospheric conditions for take-off and landing at airports. Methods and apparatus include multiple optical sources and a receiver having sub-apertures for detecting light traveling along independent paths from the optical sources to the sub-apertures. The sub-apertures of the receiver are arranged, including relative spacing, to match the geometric arrangement of the multiple optical sources, where there is one sub-aperture for each optical source. Appropriate images received by the sub-apertures are analyzed using differential image motion measurement techniques.

Abstract: Device and process for smoothing printing screens for silk screen printing, in particular rotary screens, liquid being sprayed at high pressure onto a screen (1, 1′) lying on a compression-resistant and dimensionally stable support.

Abstract: Device and process for the removal of the coating layer which forms the screen stencil on a rotary printing screen for screen printing from the rotary printing screen. The device comprising a rotatable support roller and a nozzle unit for spraying a jet of liquid onto the rotary printing screen at high pressure, the rotary printing screen lying on the support roller in the working area of the nozzle unit, and the device having a free space beneath the support roller for a rotary printing screen section freely suspended beneath the support roller.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaning device for cleaning the back cloth of a printing machine and more precisely a textile printing machine, wherein said cleaning device comprises at least one rotor provided with tines for cleaning the back cloth. The tines of the rotor are traditionally made in the shape of flexible strips. During the operation, said strips abut the back cloth and sweep it on a portion of their length due to the centrifugal force.

Abstract: A storage system for round stencils, in particular those used in the textile industry, has two or several holders for releasably holding the round stencils. The holders of the storage system may be moved by a drive, preferably all together. Also disclosed is an application system which has besides the production machine and the storage system a separate washing installation for cleaning the round stencils taken from the production machine. In the washing installation, the round stencils are sprayed from the inside and cleaned from the outside, in particular by brushes, at the same time as they are rotated.

Abstract: A bearing assembly for a cylindrical device, which is capable of assuring rapid exchange of the cylindrical device, comprising a bearing housing surrounding an antifriction bearing cage provided with roll bodies, wherein a circular opening remains open, through which the roll bodies protrude in order to be supported at the cylindrical device to be borne. The bearing housing is subdivided into two parts or housing members in a plane passing through the axis, so that one of the parts or housing members can be swiveled against the other. Also, the antifriction bearing cage is subdivided, namely into individual cages loosely joined together.

Abstract: A nozzle of a dyestuff applicator has a cylindrical valve housing formed with an orifice obstructable by the tip of an electromagnetically displaceable needle which controls the outflow of dyestuff from a chamber in that housing. The chamber is sealed by a rubber diaphragm which is penetrated by the needle whose shaft is engaged by a pair of parallel membranes of spring steel peripherally clamped in an extension of the housing. Each membrane comprises a narrow outer ring with an inwardly projecting tongue split into two diverging branches which are interconnected at their free ends, near the diametrically opposite side of the outer ring, by a re-entrant web extending radially between these branches and terminating in an inner, needle-supporting ring concentric with the outer ring.

Abstract: A broad textile web, on its way to a processing station such as a rotary-screen printer, passes around a set of closely juxtaposed but independently rotatable feed rollers that are individually driven via respective differential gear trains each having a first input connected to a common drive shaft and a second input connected to an ancillary stepping motor. Each feed roller engages a strip zone of the web which is scanned by an associated sensor upstream of the roller, the latter detecting the leading and trailing edges of recurrent transverse web sections--e.g. of pile fabric--mechanically, electrically or optically distinguishable from intervening sections. Unequal longitudinal tensions in the several strip zones actuate the sensor-controlled stepping motors for different time periods so as to cancel any relative deformation.

Abstract: To produce a perforated metal foil, especially for use in a screen printer, a decomposable, dissoluble or vaporizable dielectric substance is deposited on a cylindrical conductive substrate in a dot pattern under the control of a photoelectrically scanned master. The spaces between the dots are then filled with an electrolytically deposited metal forming a coherent layer which is subsequently stripped off the substrate. The deposition of the dot pattern is carried out through a spray nozzle, sweeping the rotating substrate, which has an outlet in a bottom wall of a narrow space filled with the liquid dielectric to be dispensed, that space being separated by an apertured partition from an overlying plenum chamber in which the air is intermittently pressurized by an electromagnetic armature to expel a limited quantity of dielectric through the outlet; the membrane may be vibrated at supersonic frequencies to generate the necessary discharge pressure.

Abstract: Relatively inflexible travelling webs, such as carpets or rugs having a coating on the reverse side thereof, are guided in a convoluted path around a plurality of guide rollers, and in this path they are heated by being subjected to steam heat, hot air heat, heat-producing radiation or heat derived from other sources.